... or: playing with little squares.

The patterns shown here are special cases of shadow weave. All of them have been composed using squares of horizontal and vertical lines. Log Cabin is one such example and it can be woven on two harness looms.

The patterns below use six or eight harnesses. A threading for eight harnesses will allow you to generate 64000 patterns, clearly only some will be of interest.

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Butterfly
6 H

 


M or W
8 H

 


Big Ball
6 H

 


Hearts
6 H

 


Nested Squares
8 H

 


M and W
8 H

 


Two Balls
8 H

 


Pin Wheel
8 H

 


Diamond
8 H

 

I wove most of these patterns and some of them have been published:

Handwoven of May/June 2002 had an article called "Weaver's Potluck" describing a project of my guild, The Black Sheep Handweavers Guild. We created a handmade book, "A Book of Days", which has two pages for each month. The article shows a picture of the month of April which contains a woven sample of the pattern "Butterfly".
I also wove several silk scarves using a combination "Nested Squares" and "Two Balls". Two of the scarves are featured in
"Handwoven's Design Collection 19" by Interweave Press:

   Scarves and Shawls for All Seasons   - Lavender Shadows Scarves

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